Install NZBGet 14 Raspberry Pi with Raspbian

NZBGet is a lightweight usenet downloader recently updated to 14.0 so NZBGet and the Raspberry Pi fit well together. NZBGet 14 supports fake detector for discarding fake releases on usenet. This will be in my upcoming Ultimate Raspberry Pi Usenet Guide. I recommend a UsenetServer account for downloading from usenet. I tested this several times on a fresh Raspbian image from September 2014. Let’s install NZBGet 14 Raspberry Pi for lightweight usenet downloading.

Edit: There is now an easier way to install the latest NZBGet automatically without building from source

If you are trying to figure out which hardware would work best for you, consider reading the Pi benchmarks.

Try browsing to the IP address of your Pi at http://ip.address:6789 the default username is nzbget and default password is tegbzn6789 If you have issues with the above process you will have to build NZBGet from source.

If you didn’t have issues scroll down to make NZBGet autostart on boot.

You can now detach from the screen with Ctrl+A, then D (for detach) and close your Putty SSH session, it will still build.

Check on the NZBGet build process with

screen -r

When the build is done you should change the permissions of the configuration file

sudo chown pi:root /usr/local/etc/nzbget.conf

Install VideoSort

Install the Videosort post processing script to have NZBGet sort your video media automatically, if you are using CouchPotato you don’t necessarily need this but it is useful if you are sending movie nzbs straight from your indexer to NZBGet.

Note: Your extension scripts folder is /path/to/scripts/ which you set in NZBGet Settings -> Paths -> ScriptDirNote: For the Raspberry Pi the extra / is necessary after scripts (this may no longer be true)

Run the nzbget daemon

nzbget -D

Now try and access NZBGet at http://ip.address:6789 username:nzbget password:tegbzn6789

Autostart NZBGet on Boot

You can use an init.d script or upstart script. The upstart script is more reliable but can cause other issues. For either of these methods your path may be /usr/bin/local if you built from source so adjust as necessary.

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